How to connect?

Hi
I have an old TV and therefore nowhere to connect a DVD. So, I took my Phillips DVD/VCR (DVD 750VR) and hooked that up - you would think, problem solved?! Well, no... now in this day in age, this girl wants to be able to play AVI's and this DVD won't do it! So, I tried hooking my stand alone DVD that plays AVI's in the Video slot in the front of the machine - it has all 3 plugs for it! But I can't find my instruction book for this machine, so I can't figure out how to access this other DVD!
I know back in the olden days, this is how they made such things as Atari work but I feel I'm missing something!
Can you help?

1 Answer

Get a three-way aerial connector for the back of your TV. It'll only cost you about £1. All it is, is an extra aerial socket where you can attach you dvd player.
It has 2 Female and 1 Male connector on it. You put the Male connector into your TV where the aerial goes. Then plug in your Aerial into one of the Female connections. Then plug in your dvd player via the coaxial lead ( not a scart lead) into the other Female connection. And turn on your dvd player and tune your Tv to pick up the dvd player. And hopefully that's it.
The connector your after look like a triangle shape with three metal bits sticking out where you plug in your Tv/dvd cables
Hope this helps

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